Today I needed to copy all files from a certain folder, but younger than 1 month to a remote machine. I knew how to use find of course… and rsync is pretty easy too… Combining these 2 needs some explanation: Finding files younger than 31 days is performed like this: find /path/to/folder -type f -mtime […]
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Installing Puppet agent on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) To install puppet on a Cloudstar (Linux) Server, the following steps need to be performed: We start with installing all available OS patches apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Reboot if necessary Change your server’s hostname to something that makes sense echo “webserver.com” > /etc/hostname hostname webserver.com Make it easy on
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Having trouble with some processes that have been running for too long? For example php scripts that just don’t seem to stop or you do not have the time yet to find out why a cron job is running for hours and hours sometimes. This easy oneliner lets you kill all the processes of a
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